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Unfortunately for this one I'd say around 40%, but that was mainly due to the target area beneath. We left much of the side growth as a Trade off for the top as its a woodland edge tree. The tree shows great vitality with a lot of inner epicormic growth to hopefully take on the new canopy. The client is keen to manage this vital habitat tree which is great so hopefully we can monitor and report back with the results.

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Would have been a interesting candidate for before and after leaf chlorophyll fluorescence testing.

Yes it would have been interesting Gary, but having talked to a couple of people who have done this on veterans, I get the impression that CF is quite difficult to ascertain over and within a complete canopy on older trees. Too many variables, like leaf size, sun and shade leaves, root section vitality etc.

Probably better suited in monitoring and maintaining newly planted or young trees.

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